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December 5, 2002, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: December 05, 2002, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, December 5-6, 2002

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on December 5-6, 2002.

The Colby Echo (2002-12-05), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Montana Kaimin, December 5, 2002, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Illinois State University Report, December 5, 2002, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Industry Leaders To Speak At Cal Poly Commencement Ceremonies Dec. 14, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

December 4, 2002 Cal Poly Report Digest, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, December 04, 2002

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Daily Eastern News: December 04, 2002, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Stop The Century--We’Re Not Ready!, Leon Lederman

IMSA Great Minds Program ®

The distinguished Nobel Laureate and contributing author of the newly released Science Literacy for the Twenty-first Century and author of The God Particle will explore how science and technology serve as the drivers for 21st Century changes in our social, political and economic lives. Profits and conveniences made by deployment of new knowledge force the issue of whether such deployment is in society’s best long-term interest. The need grows exponentially for the voting public in our democratic society to play a significant role in making decisions. Lederman discusses whether we can devise a feasible educational system that will produce high …

Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes - 12/04/2002, Teri Michael

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate Minutes for the 12/04/2002 regular meeting.

Ekupdate, December 3, 2002, Eastern Kentucky University, Public Relations

EKU Update

No abstract provided.

2002 December 2 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2002-12-02), John Strubelt

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 55, No. 14

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 027, Number 19, December 2, 2002, Grand Valley State University

2002-2003, Volume 27

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Biaxial Strain-Modified Valence And Conduction Band Offsets Of Zinc-Blende Gan, Gap, Gaas, Inn, Inp, And Inas, And Optical Bowing Of Strained Epitaxial Ingan Alloys, Gus L. W. Hart, P. R. C. Kent, Alex Zunger

Faculty Publications

Using density-functional calculations, we obtain the (001) biaxial strain dependence of the valence and conduction band energies of GaN, GaP, GaAs, InN, InP, and InAs. The results are fit to a convenient-to-use polynomial and the fits provided in tabular form. Using the calculated biaxial deformation potentials in large supercell empirical psuedopotential calculations, we demonstrate that epitaxial strain reduces the InGaN alloy bowing coefficient compared to relaxed bulk alloys.

Autoregressive Moving Average Models Of Conifer Crown Profiles, Samantha J. Gill, Gregory S. Biging

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

A time-series autoregressive moving average (ARMA) approach was used to develop stochastic models of tree crown profiles for five conifer species of the Sierran mixed conifer habitat type. Models consisted of three components: (1) a polynomial trend; (2) an ARMA model; and (3) random error. A Bayesian information criterion was used to evaluate alternative models. It was found that 70% of the crown profiles could be modeled using first-order ARMA [AR(1) or MA(1)] models, and that an additional 25% could be modeled using a white noise model [(AR(0)]. When the coefficients of the ARMA models were statistically significant, the models …

Insights, Fall, 2002, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.

Daily Announcements December 2002, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

High-Energy Ball Milling Of Polymers, Jabari Robinson

Electronic Dissertations and Theses

With metallic materials, the mechanism of milling is generally regarded as a combination of fracturing and cold-welding of powder particles. The same general mechanism is expected to apply polymers, but some aspects of the mechanism may be different for polymers due their chainlike molecular nature, lower moduli, and higher sensitivity to temperature. In spite of some potential problems some researchers have recently demonstrated that milling can be used to produce polymers and blends with acceptable mechanical properties. C. Bai and associates used high-energy ball milling at three temperatures on poly (ethylene terephthalate) and produced favorable results. Spontak et. al. cryogenically …

Effects Of Germanium On The Electronic Transport Mechanism In Co20 (Cu-XGeX)80 Nanogranular Ribbons, J. He, Z. D. Zhang, J. Ping Liu, David J. Sellmyer

David Sellmyer Publications

The dependency of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) on the nonmagnetic matrix in nanogranular Co²⁰ (Cu^1-xGe^x)⁸⁰ ribbons was studied. When the matrix Cu is substituted with semiconductor Ge, the magnetoresistance transitioned from negative to positive at low temperatures. The positive GMR effect is closely related to the quantity of Co/Co³Ge²/Co junctionlike configurations. This result provides evidence for the competition between two types of electronic transport mechanisms in the magnetic granular ribbons: (i) electronic spin-dependent scattering, inducing a negative magnetoresistance and (ii) Coulomb blockade of the electronic tunneling, inducing a positive magnetoresistance.

Compressible Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability At The Terrestrial Magnetopause, Alejandro G. Gonzalez, Julio Gratton, Fausto T. Gratton, Charlie J. Farrugia

Coronal Mass Ejection Research Group

The compressible magnetohydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occurs in two varieties, one that can be called incompressible as it exists in the limit of vanishing compressibility (primary instability), while the other exists only when compressibility is included in the model (secondary instability). In previous work we developed techniques to investigate the stability of a surface of discontinuity between two different uniform ows. Our treatment includes arbitrary jumps of the velocity and magnetic fields as well as of density and temperature, with no restriction on the wave vector of the modes. Then it allows stability analyses of complex configurations not previously studied in …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 14, No. 6, December 2002

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Calendar of events

Congratulations

Welcome

Farewell

Faculty news

Graduate student news

From the office

Museum news

Grants

Publications

Travel

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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2002/2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA Volume 18, Number l Wri\ - 102/0.3 (6 Go TO theMountatns! " Helen Hunt Jackson bv Bonnie Johanna Gisel • I—4 elen Hunt Jackson, poet, author oiA Century of JL -L. Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881) and Ramona: A Story (1884), and Special Commissioner to the "Mission Indians" of southern California (1883), wrote to her friend Jeanne C. Carr and to John Muir in 1885. She was seeking a place in the mountains of California where she could rest and recover from an …

Information Systems For Mine Action From The Data Entry Point Of View, Zoran Grujic

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

This article aims to provide readers with a closer insight into the endeavors of creating an information system and problems related with keeping data consistent and up to date, especially from the point of data entry. The author strives to provide honest and direct insight into the problems and solutions found while supporting mine action activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Policy Profiles Vol. 2 No. 6 December 2002, Northern Illinois University Center For Governmental Studies, Susan A. Devincentis, William R. Fritz, Karen C. Larsen

Policy Profiles

Educations Problems: Teachers' Perspectives

Why Benchmarking Is An (Asymptotically) Optimal Approach To Numerical Methods: A Geombinatoric Proof, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In numerical mathematics, one of the most frequently used ways of gauging the quality of different numerical methods is benchmarking. Specifically, once we have methods that work well on some (but not all) problems from a given problem class, we find the problem that is the toughest for the existing methods. This problem becomes a benchmark for gauging how well different methods solve problems that previous methods could not. Once we have a method that works well in solving this benchmark problem, we repeat the process again -- by selecting, as a new benchmark, a problem that is the toughest …

How Ngos Can Build Peace: Landmine Clearance And Victim Assistance, Maureen Morton

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are multi-disciplinary from a governance, organizational behavior, executive development and field perspective. Rarely, though, are the tools of competitive advantage, project planning and conflict resolution software used to seek linkages with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to coordinate resources, particularly to integrate the disparate sectors of landmine and UXO clearance, victim assistance and resourcing across industries. One method is to employ “best practices” from developed countries proven to develop abilities for disabled farmers and youth in post-conflict countries as one of a number of agrarian and health care initiatives built around demining as agricultural preparation. The goal is …

On Choosing And Bounding Probability Metrics, Alison L. Gibbs, Francis E. Su

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

When studying convergence of measures, an important issue is the choice of probability metric. We provide a summary and some new results concerning bounds among some important probability metrics/distances that are used by statisticians and probabilists. Knowledge of other metrics can provide a means of deriving bounds for another one in an applied problem. Considering other metrics can also provide alternate insights. We also give examples that show that rates of convergence can strongly depend on the metric chosen. Careful consideration is necessary when choosing a metric.